When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.

There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.

The best time for gum is just before getting onstage. I need a minty-fresh microphone.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.